Simona Giurgea performing Simone Weil’s essay “The Iliad or the Poem of Force”

Simona Giurgea, Senior Lecturer of English in the University Theater, Colgate University, performing Simone Weil’s essay “The Iliad or the Poem of Force” translated by Mary McCarthy. “For those dreamers who consider that force, thanks to progress, would soon be a thing of the past, the Iliad might appear as an historical document; for others, whose powers of recognition are more acute and who perceive force, today as yesterday, at the very center of human history, the Iliad is the purest and the loveliest of mirrors.“ Simone Weil, “The Iliad or the Poem of Force,“ December 1940 Born in Paris, in February 1909 into an agnostic French Jewish family, Simone Weil died of cardiac failure in August 1943.
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